Fair enough! Most ales are actually slightly below room temperature as they are usually drawn up from a cool cellar but if they're artificially chilled it just seems wrong.
^^^ WHS At least ale can be drunk warm if necessary, but room temp or just below is proper. Chilled just kills the taste (which is probably why they do it to lager!)
Freezing cellars of which I have been in many are down to lager drinkers and their icy ******* ... 11 to 13 degrees C for real ales.
Yeah but we've moved onto the relative merits of beer now, so all is not lost! (Carling and Cider drinkers excepted )